Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:20:23 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: don@partsnow.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coming out Message-ID: <19980216122023.02358@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <34E8688E.76A93CD7@partsnow.com>; from Don Wilde on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 08:25:50AM -0800 References: <34E8688E.76A93CD7@partsnow.com>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 08:25:50AM -0800, Don Wilde wrote: > No, I don't mean what you think. I'd just like to float a trial balloon. > > Infoworld just had a big lead article about how the server choice is > disappearing now that the proprietary UNIX world is being drowned by > cheap NT boxes. Of course, they've been saying this for years... :-) > I would like to see if anyone is interested in joining together to take > out a large ad in Infoworld to promote FreeBSD. I myself would > contribute $100 cash to the effort, and I think if each of you consider > the benefit to our code base if even one percent of the Micros**t > sysadmin world considers switching and 1% of them actually contributes. > FreeBSD (and the rest of the freeware base) would benefit enormously > [although we might need to clone Doug and Greg and Amancio and probably > a few others :)] How much does an ad cost? I'm guessing that a full page ad is pretty pricey.. Also, does anybody know if Walnut Creek is going to do more of those newsletters? They looked really slick an impressed quite a few people that I showed it to! -Mark > > ------------------------------------- > | FreeBSD... the Power to Serve! | > | | > | If even one percent of the M$ | > | NT server users switch to free | > | software like FreeBSD, XFree86 | > | Apache and GNU tools, and only | > | one percent actually contributes | > | code to the collection, free | > | software will overtake proprie- | > | tary solutions so fast the | > | future will regard Microsoft | > | and other obnoxious software | > | licensers as an evolutionary | > | dead end on the way to truly | > | open computing. | > | | > | http://www.freebsd.org | > ------------------------------------- > > Any takers? > -- > oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * > o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ > V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] > /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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